2009/4/23 WJhonson@aol.com:
I disagree that "Right" and "Wrong" have any meaning in a biographical article. Rather terms such as "has no evidence", "is cited to this source" would have meaning. Right and Wrong are such fluid creatures that we actually have courtrooms where they are debated all day and still have no justice ;)
I think they do have meaning on an objective factual level. e.g. If the NYT gets a birthdate wrong and this error is perpetuated, that doesn't make it right however well cited it is.
But that's a detail, not the point. Is there a formulation of what I said (the necessity of immediatism, the lack of the luxury of eventualism) that you'd agree with?
- d.